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We would never grow, never learn, never appreciate the really good moments in life if, day after day, were a beautiful experience.  When you come through the hard times, it feels pretty good.  (Sometimes life more closely resembles some of the current reality shows on television, doesn't it?)

All hail the "Chick Flick".

Good point Dopey... I think we are lacking background music... and someone to clean the house.  ... And a 'skip' to the good parts ... and fashionable clothes .... and perfect hair all the time...

Oh woe is Moi!

If you were to take out the mundane, life would be a "Chick Flick"... seriously. 

Ducky

Oh fishy...isn't that the truth...go here...go there...hurry...hurry...I see so many young families that just never seem to simply...."be quiet and relax together". :(

Life is a choice, some are flung upon us, and everything is not so beautiful, we have the power to change that and perhaps help others along the way, sometimes we just don't realize it, every life should be cherished and nurtured, unfortunately it just doesn't happen with a script, but then again that's what makes our lives different, challenging and rewarding

Great question Dopey, perhaps in reality we are all stars , some big some small some yet to shine.I like to think I was the star of "oaklahoma" but in reality I'm really just a legend in my own mind until we get a director who can see the finished production I guess were all just G rated..

Ducky

Gee :)

Ahh Hollywood!  If only...................................

Maybe this is all scripted and we are all adlib-ing as we've forgotten the script over the task of living.Doesn't it feel like that?Some things feel destined don't they?Like when we say"Oh,well that was bound to happen" or even,"I knew that would go like that..."Or when we realize that domino-of-occurences that leads to a particular outcome has played out like a freaking movie!!!Just a thought.Peace.

It depends upon how you look at life. You make it what it is. Try looking through rose coloured glasses for a change, instead of dark coloured ones.

Because People no longer use the "nice" script in daily life (generalization-everyone sit back down)

People think the entire road, supermarket, bank belongs to them...they need to be FIRST because whatever they have to do is WAY more important than what we have to do.  and saying please and thank you apparently has become a "time waster"....not to mention the foul language you get occasionally.  

Sound familiar??? and I haven't hit politics, poverty, and pea-shooters yet.

Ducky

doo...(echo)...glad to know that someone else sees that too...I find that people are very caught up in "me, me, me"...I'm in a hurry..I have things to do...I'm first here...get out of my way...etc...rudeness matters not!!! I like to shock people sometimes and say, "Go ahead". You would think that I said, here's a million $ for you! :)

Real life is never like a beautiful movie. It has its ups and downs.I think people were more caring and helpful 30 yrs. ago. People cared more about theire next door neighbor, or someone that needed a hand.With all the bad news today people become desensitized by the plight of others.

Ducky

But...don't throw away your computer, okay? Hahaha

Life is life of of billions of people about which you or I know rarely anything at all. Some of these lives were/are equally or more sensitive that what we see in any movie.

Ducky

True enough!

BEC/ IF THE REAL WORLD WAS LIKE THIS THAN WE WOULD NEVER GET ANY REAL WORK DONE!! (P.S SORRY BOUT CAPS COMPUTER MALFUNTION)

Because those movies were written to take us away  from our everyday cares adn worries. That was not supposed to be a trite answer.

My wife said.. "why don't we ever make love like they do in the movies??"

I said 'OK!'

So I slapped her behind, threw her on the floor pulled her hair slapped her around s'more..

She was very upset, 

I guess we don't watch the same movies.. :(

Life is not a movie and we don't follow a script.

Life is like that occasionally. Also, a movie is a moment in time not a constant diet of fluff.

What a wonderful question, dopey.

One evening some 20 years ago I was watching the movie Superman with my sister.  The boy at the newspaper agency asked Lois Lane "Ms. Lane, Ms. Lane, why do you get such great stories?"  Lois Lane turned towards the boy, the editor in chief looked at the boy, and they both simultaneously said to him "GREAT REPORTERS DON'T GET GREAT STORIES.  GREAT REPORTERS MAKE STORIES GREAT!"

Dopey, we all owe it to ourselves to make our lives great.  Let's do it!